{Despicable Three!}

Birthday hangover.

We have it.

The boys had their "Despicable Three!" birthday party yesterday and we had lots of family over to help us celebrate.

Wow...three years as parents of twins. Amazing how far we've come.

From these little guys...

To these handsome little boys...

But now for the birthday fun! The boys have loved Despicable Me for awhile now, so that was the theme I picked for their party. With a tight budget, I had to get creative with the decorations and the cake, and I have to say that I'm really proud of how it turned out. It is super hard to find Despicable Me party stuff, so most of the items were DIY. I did find a great poster on Amazon for $5 to go over the fireplace...

 

And I made the banner with simple cardstock and images I found online.

Our fireplace is in need of a major makeover so it was nice to give it some life with the banner and streamers.

What I was most excited about was their cupcake stand and the cupcakes themselves. I DIY'd the stand using a Martha Stewart cupcake stand kit from Joann Fabric...

 

I enlarged a moon image I found online for each tier, and added some cardstock I had left over from the banner to fill in the gaps. I also covered the {a bit too girly} scalloped border with ribbon to boy it up a little, and to add some color. This project was a little time intensive but totally worth it.

And now for the cupcakes! I created toppers for them with images from the movie...Mr. Gru, Vector, the girls, and of course, the minions. And for the top I made four minion cupcakes using twinkies {thanks to an awesome photo/tutorial I found online}.

Here are the minions in progress...the eyes are white smarties :)

 

And here they are on the cupcakes!

 

They turned out so darn cute...

 

The guy on the far left was my favorite. And here is a better look at the toppers...

 

The boys enjoyed them...

 

{just a little tip...that blue icing STAINS like crazy! I had blue fingers all day. :) }

 

And if you didn't already notice, the boys also sported custom t-shirts for the big shindig. So far for each birthday I have made them shirts and it is a fun tradition I would like to continue...as long as they think it is cool anyway. :)

The fronts of the shirts...

And the backs {with popular lines from the movie}...

 

I created the images with clip art and Adobe Photoshop Elements, and used iron-on transfer paper. Easy peasy!

And just for fun a couple more pics from the party...

 

 

The boys will officially be three tomorrow. Definitely feeling very sentimental of how far we have come, and proud of how they have grown over the past three years. 

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